REPRISAL RAIDS
ATTACK ON GIBRALTAR HEAVY FRENCH BOMBING DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS
Rec. 8.30 p.m. Gibraltar, Sept. 25. Twenty or more planes of a French type dropped 100 bombs from an altitude of 20,000 feet on Gibraltar yesterday, it is officially stated. Four persons were killed and 12 injured. i The raiders made low dives below | the clouds and were engaged by antiaircraft guns from the ground and warships, which shot down at least one plane Some buildings and a road were damaged, and three fires were started but were soon under control. The raid lasted four hours, the longest Gibraltar has yet experienced. It is announced at Vichy that 120 French planes raided Gibraltar as a reprisal and dropped 100 bombs which catts d exten§ive fires in petrol dumps and an arsenal. Advice from La Linea, however, gives the number of planes that participated in the raid as 30 and say that the raid lasted 90 minutes. Black smoke from fires enveloped the rock. The German news agency story is that 120 French warplanes stationed in Morocco heavily bombed Gibraltar as a reprisal for the British bombardment of Dakar.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1940, Page 7
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